Monthly Archives: July 2008

FIRST reorganization

SkyView gets the underlying data for the FIRST data from the MAST archive. They have recently changed how they provide the data a little. The data used to be gzip-compressed but is now uncompressed. There’s a little bit of extra … Continue reading

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CRVAL value in FITS file fixed

The bug that caused the incorrect values of FITS CRVAL keywords for fixed projections (described in the previous post) has been fixed.

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CRVAL Error in Fixed Projections

SkyView is currently putting incorrect values in the FITS CRVAL keywords of the fixed projections. The CRVAL keywords should be the center of the projection which in fixed projections is not necessarily the center of the image. For CAR, SFL … Continue reading

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